i'm not sure if anyone noticed this since it didn't make the news, but a month after McBarge sank, its former owner Howard Meakin passed away.

if you're unfamiliar with McBarge, it was a fascinating relic of canadian history: a floating mcdonald's from Expo '86 (vancouver).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McBarge

the mcbarge sank in march of this year, and no one was able to get ahold of the last known owner. it's likely because he was in the hospital.

howard's obit:
https://www.legacy.com/ca/obituaries/nsnews/name/howard-meakin-obituary?id=58340159

#canada

There's a guy on TinkerDifferent that got their hands on an early prototype of the Finder from 1982 and some other early demo apps - including the Bouncing Pepsi Caps (made to impress mike scully) app.

MacPaint 0.1, the IconEditor and a few others. This is all stuff the Mac team was using to build the Mac. Pretty cool! I don't think any of these apps were outside Apple until now?

https://tinkerdifferent.com/threads/early-demos-finder-soundlab-sbardemo-windowmanager-iconeditor.4498/

How many parked (unused) domains do you own? I have an idea and want to know if my assumption is correct.

Boost generously, please.

In early 2024, Robert Smith used his DaynaPORT driver to create a SANA II driver for the Amiga based on Lukas F. Hartmann's MNT ZZ9000 network driver and using the BlueScsi v2 WIFI version to enable the Amiga to access the Internet.

Now, with version 1.0 of BlueSCSIUI, he has released a user interface for BlueSCSI for AmigaOS 2.0 and higher that supports configuration and diagnosis of the DynaPORT driver.

https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2025-07-00058-EN.html

#Amiga #driver #Wifi

Nature moment 📷 by Gukraiz Ghouri

The Golden Pheasants or Chinese Pheasants (Chrysolophus pictus) are native to forests in mountainous areas of western China.

#Photography #Birds

Nobody leaves the room! #DOjS just reached 900 stars on #GitHub! 😱

https://github.com/SuperIlu/DOjS

#Javascript #MSDOS #RetroComputing #CreativeCoding #p5js #RetroDev

IMO: It just goes to show how needed this was and how many people were putting off or simply not getting dental work done because of the cost.

Dental Care should be included in our Public Healthcare system. No separate system.. just part of healthcare.
Period.
#CanPoli #Healthcare #BCPoli #CdnPoli #Dentalcare
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/dental-care-expansion-growing-pains-1.7583230